Codice albumGBB-F-004350

Codice inventarioGBB-F-004350-0000

1895, USA : Advertising for the american COCA COLA COMPANY drink. The woman who modeled for this artwork was the model, popular music hall singer and actress Hilda Clark (1872 - 1932). However, Clark became famous as a model in 1895 when she became the first woman to be featured on a tin Coca-Cola tray. Hilda Clark remained the advertising "face" of Coca-Cola until February 1903 when she married Frederick Stanton Flower in New York, taking the name Hilda Clark Flower. Flower was a nephew of New York Governor Roswell P. Flower. Clark had been an active socialite in Boston but retired from the stage when she married. Frederick Flower was a millionaire, involved in banking concerns and director of several railroads.

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